Virus Database

Pantera_II family

Description Pantera_II family

These are harmless nonmemory resident encrypted parasitic viruses. They search for .COM files, then write themselves to the end of the file. While decrypting their code the viruses read the boot sector stamp (55AAh) from the MBR of the hard drive and use this constant value in decryption loop.
The viruses do not manifest themselves in any way, they contain the text strings:
PANTERA V1.0
*.com

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Holiday.3000

Description Holiday.3000

This is a dangerous memory resident parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h and writes itself to the end of COM and EXE files that are executed. After infecting a file the virus tries to infect COMMAND.COM file of the current drive.
On March, 3th the virus displays the message:
+----------------------------------------------------------------+
ƒ ATTENTION! ƒ
ƒ I'm very sorry, today is my holiday. ƒ
ƒ So, I can't serve you, cause I want to play on your computers. ƒ
ƒ ƒ
ƒ DON'T TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER UNTIL TOMORROW, ƒ
ƒ OR YOUR DATA WILL BE LOST!!! ƒ
ƒ ƒ
ƒ I'll be back to serve you tomorrow. ƒ
ƒ Thank You, ƒ
ƒ ƒ
ƒ AAA ƒ
+----------------------------------------------------------------+

And then wait for March, 4th. Then the viruses display the message and reboots computer:
Thank You for playing, see youall
Please, hit ENTER!
The virus also contains the text string:
apa saja

Holms.6161

Description Holms.6161

It is not a dangerous memory resident parasitic polymorphic virus. It hooks INT 8, 1Ch, 21h, 28h and writes itself to the end of COM and EXE files (except COMMAND.COM) that are executed or opened. On INT 8 and INT 28h calls depending on its counters and system conditions, the virus searches for the files and infects them. The virus contains the text strings:
PATH=COMMAND COMEXE*.*
Copyright 1989-1992. Version 1.05-NC for antivirus program debugging.
Holms.

When both Left/Right Shift keys are pressed, this virus plays a tune. Sometimes it performs a Control-Break call (INT 1Bh).

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